1st Edition

The Qur'an Heard Sound Poetics in Three American Sermons

By Timur R. Yuskaev Copyright 2025
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

For many Muslims, there is an inseparable connection between sound and meaning, particularly when it comes to Islamic verse and scripture. This provides fertile ground for a comparative study across traditions and forms.  Timur Yuskaev offers a meditation on the Qur’an and human sensibilities, heard together, in American Muslim sermons. Foregrounding sound, poetry and music, it is a cultural... Read more

1.  Introduction: On Sound; 2. “pitch”; 3. “emanet”; 4. “habits of the heart”; Addendum: Sarah Sayeed, “Moving From Walls to Bridges”; References; Index

Biography

Timur R. Yuskaev holds a PhD in Religious Studies with specialization in Islamic Studies and American Religions from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Speaking Qur’an: an American Scripture (University of South Carolina Press, 2017).

"This work gives voice to our lived experience as Muslims living in the West."

Aisha al-Adawiya, Women in Islam, Inc.

"The Qur'an Heard is a marvel of interdisciplinary finesse. At once panoramic and ethnographic, this sensory monograph is also critical and historical, a call to listen and act for non-Muslim as also Muslim readers."

Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University

"A hallmark of Jesuit education is eloquentia perfecta, which means more than the literal translation of “perfect eloquence”, and instead refers to cultivating a whole person who works for the betterment of the world. In this lovely study, Prof. Yuskaev looks at rhetoric and musicality as essential components of Muslim sermons, and shows how Muslim preachers attend to this important goal."

Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University